1. vocabulary and phrases

• blazing 聲名遠揚的
• philanthropist 慈善家
• resolve 決心
• genre 流派
• demographic 地域
• extended play 迷你專輯
• compilation 合輯
• galvanize 激勵v.
• tornadoes 龍卷風
• fearlessly 無畏地

fear-擔心，less-表無，ly副詞

• unprecedented 前所未有的
• commitment to 致力于
• eloquently 善辯地
• on behalf of 代表
• confer upon 授予
• honoris causa 榮譽學位

• a glittery leotard 帶亮片的緊身衣
• trustee 主席，受托人n.
• provost 教務長
• alumni、 ally 校友n.
• who humble me 使我自嘆不如
• I am elated to…… 我很高興……
• patchwork 縫綴而成的布片
• quilt 被子
• bazillion 無數(shù)的
• a catchy hook 記憶點
• cathartic 瀉藥
• per se 本身
• terminal 終點n.
• Airport Terminal 航站樓
• glamorous 光彩的，迷人的
• board 登機/船/車
• hang on 掛
• freshman dorm 新生宿舍
• test scores 績點
• on top of that 除此之外
• covid test 核酸檢測
• wholeheartedly 真心地
• delivery 交付n.
• unsolicited 主動提供的
• solicit 懇求v.
• impart 給予，傳授v.
• life hacks 生活竅門
• grudge 怨恨n.
• enviable 值得羨慕的
• hedge fund 避險基金
• outweigh 比……重
• discerning 有辨別力的
• crin ge 畏縮，阿諛奉承v.
• retrospectively 回顧地
• revolting 令人惡心的
• hilarious 非常滑稽的
• squirm 蠕動v.
• stigma 污名，恥辱n.
• unbothered 不相關的
• ambivalence 矛盾心理n.
• perpetuate 使永存v.
• chic 時髦的
• thrill 激動n. v.
• narrow down 限制，縮小
• work through ideas 整理思緒
• polish 潤色v.
• plot 計劃，劃分
• device 裝置，策略
• ensnare 誘捕v.
• senior thesis 畢業(yè)論文
• literary 文學
• chameleons 變色龍
• continuation 延續(xù)n.
• overwhelming 勢不可擋的
• barb 刻薄的語言
• slip up 跌倒
• fall off 跌落，偏離
• axis 軸心
• dust off 拂去……灰塵
• hang out 閑逛，逗留
• sleepover 留宿
• roster 花名冊
• spectator 觀眾
• excruciatingly 幾位痛苦地
• fluctuating 不斷變化的
• social relevance and likability 社會交往和社會人氣
• consummate 完美的
• through the lens of 透過……的鏡頭
• sabotage 破壞v.
• self-sabotage 自暴自棄
• rinse 沖洗
• screw it up 搞砸了
• resilient 適應性強的，有彈力的

2.sentences

• We are each a patchwork quilt of those who have loved us,
• words are my things 表達是我的特長
• I'd like to thank NYU for making me technically, on paper at least, a doctor.

Not the type of doctor you would want around in case of an emergency. Unless your specific emergency was that you desperately needed to hear a song with a catchy hook and an intensely cathartic bridge section.

• You don't always get all the things in the bag that you selected from the menu in the delivery surface, That is life. You get what you get.
• Life hacks:

Taylor： I try not to give anyone unsolicited advice unless they ask for it.

①The first of which is life can be heavy, especially if you try to carry it all at once. Part of growing up and moving into new chapters of your life is about catch and release.

Knowing what things to keep and what things to release. You can't carry all things, all grudges , all updates on your ex, all enviable promotions your school bully got at the hedge fund his uncle satrted.

Decide what is yours to hold and let the rest go. Oftentimes the good things in your life are lighter anyway, so there's more room for them.

One toxic relationship can outweigh so many wonderful simple joys. You get to pick what your life has time and room for. Be discerning.

②Secondly, learn to live alongside cringe. No matter how hard you try to avoid being cringe,

you will look back on your life and cringe retrospectively. Cringe is unavoidable over a lifetime. Even the term cringe might someday be deemed cringe.

You're probably doing or wearing something right now that you will look back on later and find revolting and hilarious.

You can't avoid it, so don't try to.

For example, I had a phase where for the entirely of 2012, I dressed like a 1950s housewife. But you know what ? I was having fun. Trends and phases are fun. Looking back and laughing is fun. And while we're talking about things that make us squirm, but really shouldn't. I'd like to say I' m big advocate for not hiding your enthusiam for things.

It seems to me that there is a false stigma around eagerness in our culture of unbothered ambivalence.This outlook perpetuates the idea that it's not cool to want it, that people who don't try are fundamentally more chic than people who do. And I wouldn't know because I've been a lot of things but I've never been an expert on 'chic'. But I'm the one who's up here, so you have to listen to me when I say this. Never be ashamed of trying. Effortlessness is a myth. The people who wanted it the least were the ones I wanted to date and be friends in high school. The people who want it the most are the people I now hire to work for my company.

I started writing songs when I was 12, and since then it's been the compass guiding my life, and in turn, my life guided my writing. Everything I do is just an extension of my writing, whether it's directing videos or a short film, creating the visuals for a tour, or standing on a stage, performing.

Everything is connected by my love of the craft, the thrill of working through ideas and narrowing them down and polishing it all up in the end, editing, waking up in the middle of the night, throwing out the old idea because you just thought of a new or better one, or a plot device that ties the whole thing together. There's reasons they call it hook. Sometimes a string of words just ensnares me, and I can't focus on anything until it's been recorded or written down. As a songwriter, I've never been able to sit still, or stay in one creative place too long. I've made and released 11 albums. And in the process, I've switched genre from country to pop, to alternative, to folk. And this might sound, like a very songwriter centric line of discussion. But in a way, I really do think we are all writers and most of us write in a different voice for different situations.